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Photographer
Nora Handsley
Good Luck Around Every Turn
Photographer
Nora Handsley
Good Luck Around Every Turn
Photographer
Nora Handsley
Good Luck Around Every Turn
Photographer
Nora Handsley
Good Luck Around Every Turn
Photographer
Nora Handsley
Good Luck Around Every Turn
Photographer
Nora Handsley
Good Luck Around Every Turn
Photographer
Nora Handsley
Good Luck Around Every Turn
Photographer
Nora Handsley
Good Luck Around Every Turn
Photographer
Nora Handsley
Good Luck Around Every Turn
Photographer
Nora Handsley
Good Luck Around Every Turn
Photographer
Nora Handsley
Good Luck Around Every Turn
Photographer
Nora Handsley
Good Luck Around Every Turn
Photographer
Nora Handsley
Good Luck Around Every Turn
Photographer
Nora Handsley
Good Luck Around Every Turn
Photographer
Nora Handsley
Good Luck Around Every Turn
Gomma Photography Grant 2025 Finalists

Gomma Photography Grant 2025

Good Luck Around Every Turn

Photographer

Nora Handsley

Good Luck Around Every Turn

15 Feb, 2026

“Good Luck Around Every Turn” is a project about empowerment and self-determination. It captures fragments of my life and how agency and humour persist despite uncertainty and difficulty.For the past three years, I’ve been documenting the world as I experienced it — stumbling through life and laughing about it anyway. Either not thinking at all or thinking far too much. The days blurred. A strange dizziness set in, a sense that something wasn’t quite right. Beneath it, a silent fear began to grow. Eventually, I discovered it was caused by a malignant tumour in the middle of my head. That year became a year of many goodbyes — like driving down a road you’ve travelled for years, only to realise you’re leaving it behind.Good Luck Around Every Turn is about learning to live with what you can’t change and finding small moments of freedom in the midst of it all. Making these images helped me stay stubborn, ironic, alive. An act of self-determination — and a reminder that even in this mess, I can still find room for humour and tenderness.

About the photographer

Nora Handsley

Nora Lou Handsley (b. 1998, Cologne) lives and works in Hamburg, where she has been studying Communication Design at HAW Hamburg since 2021. Her creative path began in her teenage years through early experiences in photography, including work as an assistant and intern.Her projects—including Bunter Beton, a documentation of urban space appropriation, Das komische Gefühl, and the long-term series Good Luck Around Every Turn—explore the intersections of youth, illness, and empowerment. In 2024, she was awarded the German Youth Photography Award.Beyond the camera, Nora draws inspiration from skateboarding and music, both of which inform her visual language and creative process. Since early 2023, she has been an active member of the ZUS Collective in Hamburg, where she co-organizes and curates events and exhibitions that critically engage with public space.